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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.


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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
ADAM MCKAY This is an area where we should really dominate. There's probably more derivatives talent here than ...
BRADY DOUGAN Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people...
DANA SPIOTTA Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.
ALEX WONG Any poultry on sale in an unregulated market and any pigeons or game are now culled.
GEORGE KHOURY The sharp rally on Wall Street is filtering through the currency market and lifting the U.S. dollar.
ALEX BEUZELIN All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certai...
DANA SPIOTTA Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, n...
REBECCA MCNUTT Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The major driving factors for the equity market were probably the upward finish on Wall Street and t...
RUSSELL JONES The local market continued to post losses as it was affected by the retreat of Wall Street and the J...
CASTOR PANG The market held on despite Wall Street. I think investors are becoming increasingly confident and ta...
MARIO ZAWADZKI People are concerned that if there's a big drop (Friday) on Wall Street ... this market will also fo...
ROBERT OWEN The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street...
ALVIN TENG We can and should view synthetic worlds as essentially unregulated playgrounds for economic organiza...
EDWARD CASTRONOVA Wall Street was steadier overnight and Hutchison has denied a share placement rumor, so the market r...
ALAN PAU This fraud stretched from the biggest firms on Wall Street to a small day- trading shop. The common ...
LINDA THOMSEN My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the l...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER It's going to be very hard to find anybody on Wall Street who can complain about Bill Clinton with t...
EDWARD YARDENI Doing so gives the rest of the taxpayers confidence that the system has integrity and accountability...
HARVEY BENNETT ..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying part...
NOAM CHOMSKY Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take...
WARREN BUFFETT Gains on Wall Street and Tokyo provided support to the local market. Properties led (the gains) as m...
CASTOR PANG Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are t...
ALEX BERENSON The Hong Kong market takes the lead from Wall Street and, to a lesser extent, other overseas markets...
HOWARD GORGES What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on ...
LAURENCE D. FINK I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange ...
KEITH ROTHFUS Quotes are an effective but indirect way to seek the correctness and change world aspires essentiall...
ANUJ SOMANY Occupy Wall Street-The writing on the wall for the American establishment?
MUHAMMED HAIDER The market took the lead from Wall street last Friday and the Japanese market this morning. Buying i...
CASTOR PANG But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
PETER DEFAZIO Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuin...
JACKSON WONG The market is following Wall Street and Nasdaq lower at the moment but I think we're going to see ba...
ALEX WONG My party needs to listen to Main Street, not to Wall Street on this issue.
GARY BAUER For the most part, Christmas is here and everyone is taking a well-deserved break, including Wall St...
ANDRE BAKHOS Wall Street has a lot of football fans. The Super Bowl indicator might be fun, but I'd put more cred...
JEFF HIRSCH On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything diss...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to ...
DAVID TEPPER The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.
STANLEY CHOU Share prices got off a firmer start as investors took comfort from the rally on Wall Street but caut...
YUTAKA MIURA The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
CAROL LOOMIS Be patient - there's the rarest thing on Wall Street.
JEFF SAUT What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!
HENNY YOUNGMAN Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, b...
MICHAEL MOORE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There is still a worry about a possible major correction on Wall Street in the short term.
EUGENE LAW After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 throug...
BERNIE SANDERS Wall Street has come pretty close to being an around-the-clock enterprise anyway.
CHRISTINE CALLIES I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels,...
CALVIN AYRE Getting a foothold on the DVD market really gives you leverage in the TV market,
SEAN WARGO I have very good friends on Wall Street.
STEVE MNUCHIN Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, an...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall S...
GARY WEISS Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the sa...
STEPHANIE CUTTER If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.
PETER SCHIFF Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business'...
RICK PERLSTEIN Wall Street has a bunch of football fans and it's something to do. But I really hate the thing. It m...
JEFF HIRSCH our modern day society is sad, we in america live in a nation that is based on greed and malice, the...
RANDY KYLE THOMPSON You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb ...
BERNIE SANDERS Matt epitomized a team player. He gives everything and asks for nothing. Now he's helping this team ...
BOB SEMLING I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
ANDREW YOUNG Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowh...
SIMON MAINWARING A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.
BEN BERNANKE There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live ...
STEVE EARLE I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.
BRAD HINTZ Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidd...
ADAM GOPNIK [Yet while sentiments are that small-caps will rise as long as large-caps remain strong, some on Wal...
CARY LEAHEY During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with ...
STEVEN RATTNER Not to be heartless, but this is very good for Wall Street, ... And I think that is why we are seein...
ART HOGAN I don't think Main Street cares. But it would improve the mood on Wall Street. Little things like th...
BRIAN GENDREAU It looks like the market is operating independently of Wall Street today. It is a normal fight betwe...
GABRIEL JAFET In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, ...
JOHANNES TAULER I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r...
DAYMOND JOHN Everything we do should be an avenue to touch lives and make the world a better place
SUNDAY ADELAJA I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street...
DANA SPIOTTA Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
DEBORAH MOGGACH The market saw through the Fed's inspiring comments about the economic recovery because it moved to ...
ALIA BAIG Sentiment on Wall Street has gotten to an 18-month low. When sentiment gets this bad, you know the b...
ART HOGAN We're continuing to see retailers cite the weather for either making or breaking their sales numbers...
GEORGE WHALIN Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country st...
ELIOT SPITZER You might see some relief (on Wall Street) after the G7 meeting.
BILL MEEHAN You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
DIANE ARBUS They're very interested in sending their graduates out to Main Street as well as Wall Street.
BEN BARON Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet, / Crumbling behind the eyes, / Their world gives way ...
LOUIS MACNEICE When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ...
CAROL LOOMIS Without pressure from Wall Street, they would never have got things moving. It took Wall Street to w...
BRAD RUBIN There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,
ERIC FRY In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal ...
CAROL LOOMIS This could finally lead to a sell-off in U.S. equities. And then European stocks would mirror falls ...
GARY DUGAN Even in individuals in which we diminished the pool of the reservoir, the hidden reservoir, to level...
ANTHONY FAUCI I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
BEN NELSON It's primarily to impress Wall Street.
RICHARD ADAMS I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on W...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.
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MATT GROENING I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to ...
MATT STONE I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympat...
MATT DILLON My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
MATT DAMON It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the rig...
MATT APUZZO Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between...
MATT GONZALEZ If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it c...
MATT SMITH We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general coul...
MATT APUZZO I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
MATT SMITH No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can'...
MATT CAMERON Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over...
MATT GROENING While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
MATT BEVIN Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity...
MATT GONZALEZ The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before...
MATT MCGORRY